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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
Wild Swans Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Sonnet 100 Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1633
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
Dolphin Robert Lowell 1976
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Hoodie January Gill O’Neil 2015
Square Cells Jenny Xie 2017
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
Sunset E. E. Cummings 1913
Our eunuch dreams Dylan Thomas 1953
Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] Gregory Orr 2009
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky 1990
A Farewell to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866

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